escalade
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of escalade
1590–1600; < Middle French < Old Provençal *escalada, equivalent to escal ( ar ) to scale 3 + -ada -ade 1
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The escalade of masonry escarpments eighteen feet high can never be successful without much preparation.
From The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Helmuth, Count
Seizing one of the axes, I attacked the lower rigging vigorously, cutting through shrouds, slings, braces, and halyards, everything that came within reach, thus making my position secure from escalade.
From A Lad of Grit A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
Only Antioch, the ancient capital of the land, held out, and Antioch also was taken in the winter by escalade, through the daring of an officer named Burtzes.
From The Byzantine Empire by Oman, Charles William Chadwick
For it is according to eternal fitness, that the precipitated Titan should still seek to regain his paternal birthright even by fierce escalade.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
He stopped suddenly, and gazed for a moment at the riband on the top of the escalade.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
The cat escaped once more and Mahony began to throw stones at the wall she had escaladed.
From Dubliners by Joyce, James
The cart on my right, defended by George, was escaladed by three wolves, one of which was immediately disabled by a thrust of the vigorous old man's pike.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 by Various
Meanwhile the first column under Nicholson escaladed the breaches near the Cashmere gate, and pushed along the ramparts toward the Kabul gate, carrying the several bastions in the way.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
For facing us were the mountain heights, which had to be escaladed before we could leave the river gulch.
From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by Morrison, George Ernest
It was a formidable-looking place, with a deep ditch in front, and strong palisades, which must be pulled down or escaladed before it could be entered.
From The Three Admirals by Wells, J.R.
This was not discovered till the assaulting party arrived without bridges, and with nothing but escalading ladders, which they attempted to use as bridges.
From General Gordon A Christian Hero by Churchill, Seton
“Well?” said the sergeant, as the man descended by means of the broken wash-stand and chair, which had been used for escalading purposes.
From A Little World by Fenn, George Manville
It might be thought that this manner of building offered considerable facilities to an escalading enemy.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William
I caused a sloping picket fence, technically called a fraise, to be projected over the parapet on my side of the work, as an obstacle against an escalading party.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
The walls of the peaceful Mission garden and the warlike presidio were alike lost in the escalading vines or leveled by the pushing boughs of gnarled pear and olive trees that now surmounted them.
From Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Harte, Bret
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